Guest Post by Rachel Goble December is a month of generosity: we give to our favorite charities, we buy presents for our loved ones and volunteer at the local food bank. The SOLD Project has developed some really creative ways to expand our giving even further – to help prevent child exploitation. So this year, […]
Yesterday my friends Donna and Leroy Barber visited Antioch for a Q&A session on Ferguson and what it means for faith and race relations in America. They also stuck around for a conversation with students and others in the Kilns College community to discuss in greater depth the issues surrounding Ferguson and the deeper need
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Guest Post by Troy Jackson One of the most provocative songs of the 1960s is Paul Simon’s “The Sound of Silence.” The haunting lyrics, which marginalize “the words of the prophets” to “subway walls and tenement halls” are poignant when it comes to white Christian engagement in the pains and struggles of African Americans. When
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Ben Lowe is on staff with the Evangelical Environmental Network and serves as the national spokesperson for Young Evangelicals for Climate Action. Ben was raised a missionary kid in Southeast Asia and now lives in community in a refugee and immigrant neighborhood outside Chicago, where he ran for US Congress in 2010. He is a
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Did you know that Halloween (All Hallows’ Eve) is the same day as Reformation Day? On that day in 1517 Martin Luther posted his famous 95 Theses (or issues) against the church of his day. That’s because, on the next day, All Saints’ Day, a large collection of relics was going to be presented for
Paul Crouse is a former Antioch intern by way of Moody Bible Institute who is a good friend and has done a lot of art for The Justice Conference and Antioch over the last few years. He just blessed me with this new art (think Aslan) which is probably the coolest piece of art anyone
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Walter Brueggemann on Sabbath as Resistance One of the more unique prophetic voices for many pastors and leaders I know today is Old Testament professor Walter Brueggemann. Brueggemann has a profound and simple way of highlighting narrative threads in the Old Testament as well as a poetic ability to make the message of the prophets
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Photo Credit: Adam Csider Photography “Christianity did not come in order to develop the heroic virtues in the individual but rather to remove the selfishness. It is not a matter of improving yourself up to a certain maximum. Why this can so easily be nothing but selfishness and pride.” Soren Kierkegaard One of the struggles
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Joshua Ryan Butler serves as pastor of local and global outreach at Imago Dei Community, a church in the heart of Portland, Oregon, where he enjoys helping people who wrestle with some of the tough topics of the Christian faith. Joshua oversees the church’s city ministries in areas like foster care, human trafficking, and homelessness
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